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		2OEH8eoCRo0 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When a video codec wins an Emmy I hear you but I think the benefits fall mainly on streaming platforms rather than users. Like I'm sure Netflix will lower their prices and Twitch will show fewer ads to pass the bandwidth savings onto us right?

giantrobot 6 days ago [–]

Would anyone pay NetFlix any amount of money if they were using 1Mbps MPEG-1 that's trivially decoded on CPUs?

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